Drinking cup or glass



G. H. LOMAX.

DRINKING 0UP OR GLASS.

(No Model.)

Patented Nov. 1, 1881.

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Inn/e 72250 7'' N. PETERS. Pho! EJNTTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE H. LOMAX, OF SOMERVILLE, MASSACHUSETTS.

DRINKING CUP OR GLASS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 248,867, dated November1, 1881.

Application filed September 19, 1881.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, GEORGE H. LOMAX, ofSomerville, of the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in Drinking Cups or Glasses; and Ido hereby declare the same to be described in the followingspecification, and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which-Figure 1 is a side elevation, and Fig. 2 a vertical and transversesection, of a goblet or drinking-glass provided with my invention. Fig.3 is a horizontal section taken through its shank.

Beer tumblers or goblets as usually made are liable on being filled ordrunk from to have the froth or more or less of the beverage run downupon their external surfaces, and fall therefrom or from their feet upona person or table, and besides the feet are very liable to become brokenaway more or less at their edges. I

To prevent such is the object of my in vention, which consists inproviding the foot of the drinking-vessel with a troughed lip to extendupward from it at and around its periph- (No model.)

the glass, and it also prevents such liquid from dripping off the footwhile the glass may be turned up for being drunk from.

What I claim as my invention, and as a new or improved article ofmanufacture, is-

A drinking-cup or glass goblet having to its foot and about the shankthereof a troughshaped lip, as and for the purpose as specified.

GEO. H. LOMAX.

\Vitnesses:

R. H. EDDY, E. B. PRATT.

that may flow'down on the outer surface of

